TINYFUGUE [client]
The classic UNIX terminal client. Upstream has not released since 2007; a
maintained fork carries it forward.
https://tinyfugue.sourceforge.net/
Runs on: Linux, macOS, BSD
Capabilities
Read off each project's own documentation, not measured by us — a client has
no handshake for us to observe. "unknown" means we looked and did not
establish it. It never means no.
screen reader unknown
TLS yes
https://tinyfugue.sourceforge.net/
UTF-8 unknown
MCCP yes
https://tinyfugue.sourceforge.net/
GMCP unknown
MSDP unknown
ATCP unknown
MXP unknown
MSP unknown
scripting yes
https://tinyfugue.sourceforge.net/
7 of 10 rows are unknown: we did not find the project's own documentation
saying either way. A short honest table beats a long guessed one.
TinyFugue — "tf" — is the terminal client a large part of the MUSH world used
for two decades, with separate panes for input and output, a macro language of
its own, and a set of habits that have outlived several of its competitors.
Upstream is dormant: the last release is 5.0 beta 8, from January 2007. It still
builds and it still works.
A maintained fork, TinyFugue Rebirth, is actively released and adds GMCP, ATCP,
wide-character support through ICU, and Python and Lua scripting alongside the
native macro language. The table above describes upstream, because that is what
"TinyFugue" resolves to; if you are installing today, the fork is worth looking
at first.
THE TRAP IN THIS CLIENT'S DOCUMENTATION
Upstream has a documentation topic called "non-visual mode". It is not about
assistive technology — it concerns keeping input confined to the bottom line —
and it mentions no screen reader, no speech and no blind users anywhere. A
capability table assembled by keyword search would turn that filename into a
yes. This one says unknown, because that is what the documentation supports.
UTF-8 is the same shape of answer: the documented encoding support is for 8-bit
ISO 8859 character sets, and we found no upstream statement about UTF-8 either
way.
See also
TinTin++ — /reference/clients/tintin
Blightmud — /reference/clients/blightmud